Do You Hear the Silence?
It’s 8am and the house is quiet.? The only noise is the typing of my fingers and the hum of the AC.? (Why, yes, we DO run the AC at 8am.? We live on the sun, remember?)
Why on earth is this worth noting??
Because it doesn’t happen EVER.? My children have no concept of this “sleeping in” thing that people do in the summer.
You remember summer as a kid, right?
Three months when you have no place to be.
No place to go.
Nothing to do.
No expectations of your time.
No schedule to keep.
Ahhhh… Summer.? Yes, I complain about it, but you know, I think I’m coming around.? Now that we’ve had some time to adjust to this “no-schedule schedule,” it’s a beautiful thing.? If done right.? Done right defined as sleeping in, having a leisurely breakfast around 9am, heading out around 11am for some pool or sprinkler time.? No rush, no fuss, no muss at o’dark thirty in the morning.
Bliss in the normally over scheduled way too full life of the school year.? Ahhhhhh… Summer.
But my kids do it wrong.? Way wrong.? They’ve been up with the sun for weeks.? It’s important in their little minds to be up at the crack of dawn and ready to GO!
Where?? Nowhere.? Because I haven’t bothered with a summer fun schedule this year.
Why? Because they can’t miss ANYTHING.? Um… there’s nothing to miss, y’all.? The Xbox is always waiting for you and The Disney Channel has Jesse on 24/7.
For their little minds sleep is over rated.? Until August, of course, when I’m begging them to get up for school at 7:15am.? Ahem.
It’s the all too rare moments like this where I soak in the near silence of my house.? It’s lovely.? It’s fleeting.? And you know, it’s kinda creepy.
Excuse me while I go make sure they are still breathing…
Do you get quiet time in the morning?? What do you do with it?
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No quiet time. Even if my kids sleep until 9:30 like they did this morning, I sleep with them. Sleeping in for me trumps quiet time in the am.
Oh, I’d take the sleep too. My body just won’t accept #allthesleep I did manage to sleep in until 7, which is HUGE for me lately. Nice hour without any drama. 😉
On my Fridays off E gets it and sleeps in. L usually is up earlier than his normal weekday wake up time. Ugh.
I have quiet time when I sleep, does that count? 😉
ha! Right?! Come on L, get with the program and sleep in with the rest of us!
I love school holidays… It’s winter where I am, but we have some school hols coming up anyway… looking forward to them. Enjoy your summer!
Anytime it’s quiet, I’m either sleeping or spreading a little pixie dust 😉